Category: "Rocky"

DMARC / DKIM

October 11th, 2022

After some more trouble with email, I decided to set up DMARC / DKIM to help prevent major email servers from rejecting email from strav.net

How To Install and Configure DKIM with Postfix on Debian Wheezy
Setup OpenDKIM
docker-dmarc-report

How to Recover GRUB 2 Bootloader in CentOS 8

October 11th, 2022

The linked article details how to recover the GRUB 2 Bootloader in Centos 8 (and likely other similar distros)

Install Java on Centos/Rocky

October 10th, 2022

How To Migrate from CentOS 7 to Rocky Linux 8

October 9th, 2022

This article explains how to migrate from Centos 7 to Rocky Linux 8.  Note that I experienced numerous issues doing this and there is NO official way to perform this migration.  The 'proper' way to do this is to install Rocky Linux 8 from scratch.

grub2 - remember last selected item

March 22nd, 2022

For nearly all cases, I want the bootloader on a multi-boot machine to boot into the last selected option.  I've had grub2 on a number of distros now and I always need to jump through hoops to get this to work properly.  It looks like I need to do a couple things:

1. Edit the /etc/default/grub file and ensure the following two lines exist:

GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true

2. Update grub.  For debian/ubuntu, the command is:

update-grub

for Arch/Rocky the command is:

grub2-mkconfig –o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

Now for the hitch - on an EFI system (at least Arch and Rocky), you ALSO need to run this command (substituting the appropriate distribution name):

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/centos/grub.cfg

How to get grub2 to remember last choice?